BOOK NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: “Plains Indian Buffalo Cultures: Art from the Paul Dyck Collection” by Emma I. Hansen. Emma I. Hansen will sign copies of her highly anticipated book on Thursday, June 14 from 4–6 PM at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Copies are available for purchase on-site at the museum store, […]
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Summer 2013 Nineteenth-century warriors of the Plateau and Northwestern Plains sometimes wore shirts with perforations for ceremonial and formal occasions. Such shirts signified membership in a military society that prepared men for battle and honored their victories. This Ni-mii-puu (Nez Perce) punctured shirt dates to around 1850 and […]
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Summer 2014 Cartes-de-visite of a young Nez Perce Indian boy In addition to the extraordinary works of Plains Indian artistry that make up the Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection, Dyck also collected photographs, postcards, and cartes-de-visite—portraits mounted on cards. This young Nez Perce is identified on […]
Originally published in Points West in Fall 1994 By Emma I. Hansen Curator Emerita, Plains Indian Museum The introduction of the horse in the southwest had effects on the ways of life of the Apache and Comanche people of that region. During the 1700s as people of the northern plains and plateau acquired horses through […]
Originally published in Points West, Summer 2014 By Emma I. Hansen Plains Indian Museum Curator Emerita On June 15, 2013, the Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West attained one of its goals for the Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection: the public opening of the permanent gallery devoted to […]
Here’s one: condensing the meaning of life into a blog post. Wish me luck! Deb Adams of the Papers of William F. Cody project sent a link yesterday to a tourist destination in Croatia called Buffalo Bill City, and it started me thinking (again!). What is it about the American West that captures the imagination of […]